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I have been researching on Matricula and have found records from the various towns in Bavaria where my mother's family is from.
Some towns have several parishes, while some smaller towns, do not list a parish.
For those with parishes, I crafted the citation below. I believe I have shown what I looked at, the diocese where it was found, and where I found it. Does this look correct?
Also, if I have a small town without the parish name, just the name of the town, do I note this in parenthesis?
First Full note
Taufen (baptisms), Straubing, St. Jakob parish, vol. 14, p. 68 (image 71), entry 224, Catharina Lukas, born 23 November 1866, baptized 24 November 1866; Roman Catholic Diocese of Regensburg; digital images, Matricula Online (https://data.matricula-online.eu/ : accessed 17 March 2026).
Subsequent note
Taufen (baptisms), Straubing, St. Jakob parish, vol. 14, p. 68 (image 71), entry 224, Catharina Lukas; Matricula Online.
Source List Entry
Roman Catholic Diocese of Regensburg. Kirchenbücher (parish registers), Straubing, St. Jakob. Digital images. Matricula Online. https://data.matricula-online.eu/.
Hello, RCollier. Your draft…
Hello, RCollier. Your document is relocatable via your citations, but less experienced readers of your citation may have a problem or at least a puzzlement or two. To clarify, and for consistency in format between all your citations, Evidence Style would make a couple of tweaks. First, let's review four basic principles:
EE's Rule That Has No Exception:
As stated at EE4 §3.16: "The mix-and-match nature of citations to online images has one cardinal rule: Details that describe one entity must not be attached to a different entity."
Your Reference Note citations cite "Taufen ... Book 14," but the book that you are citing does not carry that label. As shown in the attached image, it is labeled "Taufmatrike, Jahrgang 1864--18875 [sic] Straubing, St. Jakob." The identification of the book as "14" is the website's identification of the book, within its own organizational scheme.
Likewise, the citation to the image number is a citation to the website, not to the original register. That register has no image number.
If you wish your Layer 1 to be a citation to the original book, then you have to cite the original book. The website's identification of the book has to be part of the citation to the website.
EE's Creation Principle:
All things in life begin with a creator—including Evidence Style citations. That applies to all types of material, published or manuscript. We identify the creator. Then we identify what was created. The creator of your record is the parish. The location of that parish is then placed in parentheses and, as parenthetical information, it can be omitted in subsequent citations.
EE's Velcro Principle:
What's meant to stick together should stick together. Your draft citation began with TYPE OF RECORD, then it veered to the identification of the CITY and PARISH, then it veered back to the SPECIFIC VOLUME OF THAT TYPE OF RECORD. Keeping the record type (Taufen) attached to volume number (vol. 14) is especially important with church records where there may be different series for baptisms, marriages, burials, etc., with each series carrying the same set of numbers.
EE's Cite What You Use Principle:
Your draft citation placed "Roman Catholic Diocese of Regensburg" after the citation of the register, as though you found that register there. But you didn't. You used online images at an outside-party website unrelated to the diocese. Your citation to the website where you found the images should follow your citation of the register. Then, in your final "citing ...." layer, you would identify the diocese that the website cites for its source.
In your second layer, in which you cite the website, it would help your users locate the document if you included the path you followed from the root URL to the image.
All things considered, an Evidence Style citation (following Template 9 and the discussion at EE 8.35 for German Church Records) would generate this:/
First Full note
1. St. Jakob parish (Straubing, Bavaria), "Taufmatrike, Jahrgang 1864--18875 [1875]," (Baptisms, Years 1864–1875) p. 68 entry 224, Catharina Lukas, born 23 November 1866, baptized 24 November 1866; digital images, Matricula Online (https://data.matricula-online.eu/ : accessed 17 March 2026) > search terms: Straubing > St. Jakob > Taufen, Register Taufen, 1864-1875 > St. Jakob014 > image 71; citing Roman Catholic Diocese of Regensburg.
Subsequent note
St. Jakob Parish, "Taufmatrike, Jahrgang 1864--18875 [1875]," p. 68, entry 224, Catharina Lukas; Matricula Online.
SOURCE LIST ENTRY:
Your draft citation leads with the identification of the diocese. That implies one of two things:
A clearer approach, given that you have not actually used that archive, would be for your lead element to be either the actual CREATOR (the parish) or the LOCATION (if your Source List is arranged by location). Here, you might review EE4 §2.45 through 2.50, "Source List Management."
Source List Entry
St. Jakob Parish (Roman Catholic). Straubing, Bavaria. Kirchenbücher (Parish Registers). Digital images. Matricula Online. https://data.matricula-online.eu/.
Or
Straubing, Bavaria. St. Jakob Parish (Roman Catholic). Kirchenbücher (Parish Registers). Digital images. Matricula Online. https://data.matricula-online.eu/.